#skipped the thanksgiving update 😭

[the-hellhounds]

Christmas was nearing, and the pack of hounds didn't lose hope over finding their friends. As time passed and they all started to notice some odd manners from two of their friends, they all decided to go to Jaemin's place to discuss while the other two were in the city doing some shopping.

"So...," Jaehyun started as he looked around the living room that was filled with the last of their pack.

"Taeyong and Haechan have nogistunes in them," Johnny continued for Jaehyun. "I've already talked with Sehun and Lola back in Beacon Hills, and they said that they would tell San to come help us." He sighed, stressed to know that their leader and one of their friends were infected with evil spirits of foxes from thousands of years old.

"How are we supposed to find the others if Taeyong and Haechan kidnapped them?" Jake asks as he held Minjun in his lap. The baby babbling away with his booties he had on.

Shaking his head as he stared to the floor, Jeno spoke up from next to Jaemin. "Taeyong hasn't been kidnapping them. Hyuck has."

"Hyuck?"

Getting up to retrieve the remote to the television, Jeno links his phone to it and presses play to a security footage he had found from the backyard of Haechan's house. "I found this while he was fast asleep with NingNing one night. He was carrying Mark's unconscious body and hid him in the trunk of his car." He says as he plays another video he found of the front gates. "He took him early in the morning when he knew no one was awake and came back home as if he didn't do anything."

"Then he probably cleaned up Mark's place when I wasn't there..." Hanbin mumbles as he began to now understand why the house where Mark lived was so quiet and eerie.

"We need San to arrive quick with the sword, but we need to find the others quicker before they do something worse." Johnny stands up from his seat, thanking Anastasia for the cookies she offered for everyone. "Don't let them get close to the girls that are coming over and to everyone's mates and babies. Who knows what the nogistunes want."

.

"They know," Taeyong says with a deep octave to his voice as he stood by the cage that held the hounds they had kidnapped.

Haechan was busy with getting the fireflies into Kai, who was the last one to turn into a berserker. "Once the Oni arrive, we'll get them on our side as well," he says turning to look at his leader. "With them as berserkers and the Oni, we'll run this city and not even San will be able to save anyone this time."

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As Haechan was walking back to the territory of the hounds, he stops when he hears a branch on the floor snap. Tilting his head to the right side of his shoulder, his eyelids lower into a dark gaze as he stared at the light blanket of snow that covered the ground of the woods.

"Choi... San." He sneers the first name out. "Still portraying the role of a true alpha undercover?" He asks, still not turning around as San approaches slowly. "I'm sure your father must be proud- oh wait. That's right," he smirks as it was the nogistune in him speaking now. "He died before he could see your true form."

Pouncing towards Haechan, San appears with his own pack to capture the infected hound. His blood boiled as he punched Haechan straight in the nose, a bone cracking. "And I'm sure your son would be disappointed in what you let in." San growls, tying up the hell hound as he knocks him out with a harsh headbutt before Haechan could incinerate himself to burn San off.

"Okay, okay. Calm down." Sehun said as he grabs Haechan's belongings. "Let's go stab this one before the other one comes back." The pack runs back to one of the houses before Taeyong could appear.

As they tie up Haechan in a chair, they piece together an ancient sword that was once used to kill evil nogistunes that would take possession of supernatural beings.

"Are we ready?" San asks as he held the sword out to Jeno who was the closest to Haechan.

With shaking hands, Jeno took the sword that suddenly began to glow in his hands. "Ready..." swallowing down nervously, he held the sword and made sure to push it into Haechan's chest. His eyes widen when he sees him wake up and look up at him in shock.

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[b1mbodoll]

AAAAAAA OMG DO I HAVE A LONG ASS ASK FOR YOU. MY DATE/NOT DATE HAS JUST CONCLUDED....

So a little back story - I worked with this guy this past summer and like the first time we met I alr liked him. Like he was exactly my type. Like 100%. But I'm super shy (never dated anyone, never kissed anyone, never held hands with anyone) so I never really did anything obvious that I liked him bc I was nervous. We kind of flirted (maybe) a lot near the end of the summer. We texted a lot a lot but he ended up moving up to college for his apartment earlier than expected so we never got to see eachother after our last days of work. There was lots of drama on my end surrounding that trust. Like mental anguish bc I fumbled the bag hard.

Anyways. We start school respectively (I go to school in NY and him in TX) and we don't talk that often, just snap like everyday. But as the semester goes on we reply to each other's stories and have short, friendly convos more frequently. Flashforward to like, a week ago or something. I reply to his insta story and we start talking. He finds out that I'm going home for Thanksgiving and he is to so he asks me to hang out. This is odd bc we weren't close enough as friends for me to think that he would ask to see me.

Anyways again, I'm skipping details bc otherwise I'll never finish this lmao - the date/not date was like everything else we do. Vaguely romantic but could also be friendly. He picked me, we ate dinner and then went ice skating together. He walked up to my door to get me, held open doors for me, and opened the car door to walk me back to my house after we got back. But like - no moves were made. No attempts to hold my hand or kiss me. AT ALL. But like he also complimented my butterfly hair lips like sir 😭😭 idk what you want from me.

But now I'm feeling kind of tired of 6-7 months of not knowing where we stand with eachother. So I texted him afterwards saying "Thank you so much for tonight, I loved seeing you again! Although, I did want to know if it was a date or if it really was intended as just a hangout, bc it did seem like it sometimes? Either way, I'd love to meet up with you again if we're both in town!" He then liked bith of the thank you messages and replied, we definitely should. But then he replied to the daye/not date ask with - I don't know. I'll have to think about it. He then said something about it being more than he anticipated but still good, so idk if that means that it wasn't intended as a date but became one and he enjoyed it or if he meant it as a date but I fumbled the bag (I give just as many mixed signals bc I'm an anxious coward lmao) but it still ended up okay.

HOWEVER, I AM A GENIUS, LIKE RIZZ MASTER 1000. I accidentally left something in his car so tmmr morning he's gonna drive back to drop it off (It's like an hour round trip for him). And tomorrow is the day I will stop being a bitch. I'm gonna tell him that I'm interested but that I also do genuinely enjoy him as a person so like, however he intends to meet up with ne in the future I'll be okay with that.

So yeah. Story time over 🫶🫶🫶🫶 Sorry that it's actually so long but I remember how excited you were so I wanted to let you know how it went 💗💗💗💗

IM ON MY KNEES RN STOP u r so cute and agh!!!!!! i will be needing an update with whatever happens pretty please, honey 🤲

im so ☹️☹️☹️ u guys went ice skating ☹️ that’s so so so so fucking cute!!!!!! that actually is so cute my heart cant take it ໒꒰ྀིっ˕ -｡꒱ྀི১ but no moves being mad.. 🤬 yeah i need to have a stern talking to with this man!!! what r ur intentions with my little angel, you HEATHEN!!! hehe no but srsly dont be anxious sweetheart! i know its hard n way easier said than done, but you seem so wonderful and im sure he thinks that as well! im so glad you had a good time <3

rizz master 1000 has me crying omg ur too silly 😭 but him driving AN HOUR TO GIVE U UR THINGS STOP IT my little heart is so warm :( im proud of u for messaging him and asking for clarification about what the lil hangout was! n pls u r anything BUT a bitch!!!!! ur perfect and i hope things work out well with him!

dont apologize for he length! i love anything romance so inwas looking forward to this update!!!! wishing u the best of luck with him <3 mwah

[embossross]

hi! finally had the time to sit down and send an ask for the recent chap of dotgitm!! i woke up that morning and was vv happy that it updated bc i’m loving it so far!

first, i was honestly a bit surprised that the fic is moving at a fast pace - i’m not sure why i thought it’d be a slowburn but nvm! i had to go back a few times to make sure i didn’t skip anything but nope! i kinda like how the scenes were a written in smaller parts - but are just as packed! and it’s slow enough that we really see how rin and yosuke’s (is it yosuke? im not sure, sorry!) relationship progresses! they already felt super close n familiar with each other in that first scene, it was so good!!! sigh ,,,, he’s such a perfect dom! and i find it really funny how in the beginning, rin said that there’d be no way ran would ever meet his girlfriend-but-not-girlfriend - but still invited her over for the new years dinner 🥹 the whole encounter was so sweet!!!! it also shows how rin is slowly letting her into his life and heart little by little.

speaking of ran though - i’m very eager to hear about his story in that universe! it made me a bit sad actually:( miki seemed like she meant a lot to him. ill be so ready for them once the story is out!!

“”Rindou thinks Naoto has a fat hard-on for you but knows better than to say so. It will only make you angry, and you are cuter when you smile.”” rin is falling SO HARD AHAH he’s adorable! and it’s so cute how it’s mentioned more than once that he loves to listen to her talk and ramble - and how he’d do a lot to see her smiling! 🥺

“ Making you happy is addictive but also reciprocal. Without seeming to try, you make him happy too.” this has to be one of my favorite lines !! totally not crying !! nope! + “you are giggling madly, and he wishes he was there with you to sweep you up in the circle of his arms and swing you”” oh man my heart. this is really bringing out the inner romantic side of me fr.

there are so many parts that made me laugh out loud - the bonten banter, YN calling rindou a squirtle, ran stealing a duck (?? WHAT 😭😭) but yeah! thank you so much for updating!! i hope you had a good thanksgiving!!! 💓 - jay, aka @/tetsutits!

you're literally so nice💕 i appreciate all the thought you put into these stories and how you share it with me. it's so fun to talk to you about these things🥰

i have literally so much to say in response to this so adding a read more!

i think chapter 1 gave the impression of a slow burn because they barely talk. i had to make a decision after writing that chapter if this was going to be a 2-shot that just shows some romantic moments, or if i'm willing to truly plot out a story to convey what i wanted, and once i decided the latter, we had to get things moving and fast! because all of this is just groundwork to the real plot of the story, which is coming soon in the 2nd half of the story.

i have never written vignette style before, so super glad that you liked it! i think the writing in those parts are my fave (i was reading a lot of poetry during that writing period), but it requires like you say a different approach to time and showing a relationship rather than these big, messy dialogues that i usually do like in chapter 2 - we just don't have time for it in this story.

of all the couples i am writing (or plan to), these are the 2 i think of as soulmates, so the instant connection allows me to get the love rolling and fast. i think it also moves so quickly because reader represents something that rindou wants outside of just herself and her company, so he's falling hard for the entire package and experience of being in love, which is self-reinforcing.

& reader's name would be Yasuko :)

when i first planned out in the belly of the beast, i imagined a scenario where each woman in the series starts snitching on bonten to the police and what their partner would do, and i decided only 3 would really stand by their woman in that case: 1) koko because he would be halfway around the world with his offshore account money before bonten even knew what happened; 2) mikey because no one could overrule him and he'd not let his girlfriend go that easy; and 3) ran, who would expect to die for the betrayal but not be able to resist showing up for miki and her family if she needed him. everyone else - even rindou for yasuko - would probably have to sit back as what happened happened because they either wouldn't have the power to stop it (takeomi for his wife), wouldn't care (wakasa), or would feel so betrayed they wouldn't be seeing clearly (rindou) ((also in rindou's case, ran would be whispering in his ear because he wouldn't want rindou to go on a suicide mission over this even though ran would do exactly that if the situation was reversed.))

i'm intimidated to write what i have in mind for ran/miki, because i think to do it justice it needs to be one very aggressive one-shot, more of a novella (like 25k words in one chapter), which will take a lot of focus. but i hope to get there because i have an angsty story to tell with them. working title is 'ran's no good horrible bad day' lol

and seriously love squealing over your favorite lines with you! rindou's pov is so romantic it's so different to write!

[you-can-face-this]

anon friend- hi! im so happy that you were able to speak to your friends about it <3 i remember how hard you used to find it to open up to them but im really happy you have a support system now you feel like you can open up to eventually!!! and im so proud of you for taking a mental health timeout, there is no shame in that! i skipped class today and yesterday which i have never done ever since college (im a senior now)!! (perfectionist anxious human here) for similar reasons. I took time out too a few weeks ago because i was very unwell and that was super hard to do as well so dont underestimate how good that is because i wish i could do that for myself without feeling horrific after. anyway enough rambling from me!! i hope you are doing okay? take each day as it comes and remember to put yourself first 💕 thinking of you always

🥺🥺🥺 thank youuu i'm investing in & relying a lot more on my friendships this year since i'm living in a dorm & see some of them every day and it's my senior year too (twinsies!!) so i'm kinda thinking even if we have a fall out, i wouldn't have to deal with consequences for long lol so proud of u for knowing when to taking time off for yourself too!! i used to have an irrational fear that my profs would hate me if i did that but again senior yr is reducing the amount of fucks i can give & i figured even if they hate me it'd only be for a few more months lmao

other updates: i unfortunately did not get the eras tour tickets 😭 despite getting both a presale code AND a capital one card holder friend lol so that's been kinda disappointing but i'm kinda over it now by lying to myself that i'm gonna go to the tour anyway? like i will be there next year. how? no one knows. the guy i kissed while emotionally unstable said he caught feelings so now i'm Considering™️. i feel like dating is the fastest way to learn interpersonal & social skills and i finally do have the time for it but also like do i really want to risk catching feelings myself? no <3 it's thanksgiving break for us this week so i'll finally have some time to reflect on all my bs & catch a break from school hehe my friend invited me to her family home so i won't be alone for the entire thanksgiving break for the first time in college which is exciting but also i get anxious about going to other people's homes & meeting people's parents (since mine hate me lmao) so ahhh if this works out well it might be the start of me finally going on trips with friends, which i've been wanting to do forever but have been too anxious to rip

i hope you can get a break from school soon too & are taking care of yourself!! thinking of u too! 🥺